Guest Concerts (OVFF report, Part 2)

Photo by Phil Mills

My OVFF report continues...

The Guests of Honor at OVFF were Annie and Tim Walker. I first met Tim and Annie when Urban Tapestry were guests at the UK filk convention in 2000 and saw them perform with Phoenix. At OVFF they performed as Wilderwood, accompanied by friends (see Annie's LJ post for details).

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I've seen Annie in rocker chick mode before (wild hair, black leather) and loved how much energy she poured into her performance. At OVFF, she was in Wilderwood garb but put just as much enthusiasm and joy into her singing.

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My strongest musical memory of Tim was when he performed a hilarious Elvis style song. He plays a huge number of instruments and has a voice that makes a fangirl melt at the knees.

I picked up "Dancing Through The Past," Wilderwood's newest CD. For some reason it won't play on my laptop :-( but I'm going to bug Allison or a Jodi for a recording from theirs so I can feed my Wilderwood fangirl soul.

Photo by Allison

Becca and Graham Leathers were excellent Toastmasters. Allison, Jodi and I were paying special attention since we're going to be Toastmasters / Filk Waifs for the first time next year at FilKONtario! I loved the interaction between these two during their concert.



So great to see these two again! And Graham's jacket tastes just as good as when I first met him years ago.

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Graham has a new CD out, by the way: GRAHAM LEATHERS BEARS ALL. :-D And I also enjoy a CD by Becca's group, Riverfolk, which gets regular play in our home.

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Sibylle Machat was the Interfilk Guest this year. I first met Sib when Allison, Jodi and I were guests at Filkcontinental in Germany some years ago, and was immediately drawn to her wonky sense of humor and contradictory extrovert/introvert personality (we have a lot in common that way); we've been friends ever since. Hearing that she was the Interfilk Guest at OVFF was a huge factor in my deciding to attend the convention.

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I'll continue my OVFF report soon.

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Above: Spot, Jan DiMasi's Ball Python. Jan was the Honored Listener guest at OVFF, and started traveling with Spot a little while back.

Comments

[Chris C]

Snakes At A Con! *g* Beautiful but heavy. (I think I first met them at GaFilk...)

[Graham Leathers]

It's actually a newer jacket than the one you first tasted, but a good thing just keeps getting better. ;-)